VIN swap discussion Options

[bandjoey]

Ready for some new metal...Will it be the same car? Sure

[Sleepin]

As long as you "move all the /4 parts to the /6 VIN", not "move the /6 VIN to the /4 parts". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Or as long as you keep the /6 firewall, tunnel and turn signal. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) We could argue the ethics all day long as to what makes the car "restored" vs. "fraudulent".

[Mike Bellis]

I'm thinking about swapping my 914 VIN out for a 71 Hemi Cuda VIN. It will be worth way more money then...

[Jgilliam914]

I'm thinking about swapping my 914 VIN out for a 71 Hemi Cuda VIN. It will be worth way more money then...

Sure why not? I think there are more 69- 71 Hemi's out there now than Detroit made in those 3 years one more wont hurt the market any (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[ScoopLV]

Lets be clear here folks, the root of this entire discussion is Money.
If you OWNED both cars as Great Scott theorized .... and you wanted to fix YOUR car & decided that you'd prefer to keep the /6... Do it. Enjoy it, after all... its just a car.
It only becomes complicated when money changes hands.

Only if the seller isn't upfront about what he or she hypothetically did.

If someone sold me a six, and I later found out it was originally a four. And I paid the going rate for a six, I would feel cheated. I might even put up a poll about what hypothetical illegal things I could do to the seller.

But if someone sold me the same car, and told me what happened and why, then it's my decision whether to buy it or not.

The problem arises when (not if) someone with a more cavalier moral compass decides to buy a six-looking-four for $X and then sell an "original, numbers-matching six" for $X+30,000.

[rjames]

The only reason to do the swap would be to increase the value of the car, with intent to sell.

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If you're really just swapping the VIN and not much else, then as others have stated, all you've done is added a six VIN to a four and made it into a six replica. The VIN swap doesn't change the fact that it's still a four. If the car was to be put up for sale and work was fully disclosed it wouldn't\shouldn't fetch the price of a six. It would only be worth what the 4 was worth + the worth of the added six parts. If you want a six, restore the six. If you want a replica then build the replica and don't bother swapping the VIN.

I would personally be livid if I purchased a -6 only to find out that someone did a VIN swap to a -4, as I'm sure most everyone would.

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I get the argument that theoretically if you replaced 99% of the panels on the real six then what's the difference between that and just moving the VIN, but to me if repairing a six really involves replacing that much of the metal, than the car is dead and the VIN should be retired. It's OK, it happens. Besides, it will just make the remaining sixes worth that much more. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Oh and...
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